CARSON CITY -- Sharron Angle, who lost a race against U.S. Sen. Harry Reid decisively in 2010, today announced via YouTube video that she's running for the congressional seat that Dean Heller is giving up in his own bid for Senate. Here's the video for your viewing pleasure:
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Angle is back, baby!
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
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Stick to business!
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
This week's Real Time with Bill Maher brought a familiar name back to the forefront. CNBC "Power Lunch" anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera mentioned that Sharron Angle's performance in the Nevada Senate race last year was proof that America is now ready to talk about other options for the Social Security
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Sharron Angle is Miss Manners
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Former Senate candidate Sharron Angle is firing back at critics -- including a U.S. congressman -- who have blamed her and her infamous "Second Amendment remedies" quote for fueling the Saturday shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson, Ariz.In a statement reported today on the website
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Palin, Angle succeed by failing upward
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Editor's note: This column appears in this week's CityLife.Call it "failing upward."Sarah Palin was plucked from obscurity to run for vice president in 2008. After a campaign in which she demonstrated unmistakably she was unqualified for the office, she quit her job as governor of Alaska, took a Fox News
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Forget ideology, Angle lacked campaign competence
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
The website Politico has the best inside-the-campaign account yet published about Sharron Angle's campaign against Harry Reid. The story portrays the campaign as a battleground between ideological Tea Party activists who knew little about campaigning and outside professional advisers who failed to gain the trust or the ear of
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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No more Sharron Angles?
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
That's what the Tea Party seems to be aiming for, according to a story in Politico. Says the piece: "The tea party movement was hampered 'by candidates who in the last election were not perceived as credible,' said Ned Ryun," who runs two groups dedicated to building
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Sharron Angle reappears, promptly says silly thing
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Failed U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle reappeared Wednesday night before a Republican town hall meeting in Las Vegas, telling partisans that "I can't stop" being involved in politics.Sadly, another thing Angle can't seem to stop is saying silly things that evince a radical failure to grasp even the most
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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At the R-J, it’s time to change the subject
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
As the sun dawns on the beginning of a new six-year term for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, his enemies at the Las Vegas Review-Journal are licking their wounds and playing up the positive news that came out of Tuesday's election. It's understandable that they'd want to avoid the fact that
Tags: Harry Reid, Media, Review-Journal, Sharron Angle, Sherm Frederick, Thomas Mitchell
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Sharron Angle: That’s strike three!
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
In the end, the truest statement in the entire campaign of 2010 may have been uttered by Sue Lowden, when the former Republican Party chairwoman said she was the only candidate who could beat Harry Reid.Certainly, Angle did not, losing by a decisive 40,000 votes or nearly 6 percent to
Tags: Bill Raggio, Dean Heller, Harry Reid, Sharron Angle, Sue Lowden
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The crusade that failed
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Typically, after an election, lists of winners and losers are composed. Certainly, there are plenty of both after the 2010 election.But one loser stands out: The Review-Journal.For more than a year, the R-J has crusaded for the defeat of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. The newspaper went all in, contributing news
Tags: Harry Reid, Review-Journal, Sharron Angle, Sherm Frederick
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